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Killing Chickens

“When you strike at a king, you must kill him” is a famous expression by Ralph Waldo Emerson. We’re all familiar with it and its meaning. When you challenge authority, you better win, as authority cannot tolerate challenges. It’s why the people in charge are so ruthless in dealing with challenges to their power. They instinctively know that to do otherwise means being displaced. In all probability, they got to where they are by subverting or knocking off their predecessor.

That’s what we see going on with the Trump administration. The rules of the game, as designed by the political class, were supposed to prevent a guy like Trump from winning the Presidency. Instead, both parties would hire approved actors to put on a show, pretending to be bitter rivals. The voters would re-enact these mock battles among themselves, getting into arguments on-line and with friends. Then one candidate would “win”, pick a staff from the political class, and the party would keep going.

Trump was supposed to have his vanity run, then bow out in the primary, before he became too much of a distraction. The political class was so sure this would be the case, they never bothered to address Trump until it was too late. They thought they had it gamed out in the general election, but then those idiot voters did the wrong thing and voted for the wrong candidate. This challenge cannot stand, which is why they have been going berserk. The threat must be addressed, by any means necessary.

There’s another expression that is useful now. It is an old Chinese idiom. “Kill the chicken to scare the monkey”, which refers to making an example out of someone in order to threaten others. This was a popular aphorism during the Cultural Revolution where Chinese officials would routinely make an example of a deviationist to remind anyone else with heretical ideas that there are consequences to challenging authority. The college professor paraded around school and forced to confess to made up crimes let the other professors know who was really in charge of the school.

That’s what we are seeing with the coordinated assault on various dissident websites, like the Daily Stormer and now Stormfront. Neither of these sites are a great threat to the established order. The Stormer is a satirical site, the suppression of which proves just about every point the proprietor ever made about the ruling class. Stormfront is an old White Nationalist site that was content to mind its own business. But they both contain the word “storm” which is now a trigger word for the ruling class, so they were targeted.

What the registrars have done in both cases is steal the domain from the rightful owners, thus shuttering their sites. It’s brazen and illegal, but that’s the point. The message being sent is that the people in charge are not constrained by the law. They can do as they please. If you are a trouble maker out there, who has invested time and money in his site, you might want to watch what you say. Otherwise, a big tech company will steal your property and shut you down. That’s the message being sent with these acts.

It’s why they are picking on these two sites. Small guys operating on the fringe are easy for everyone else to dismiss. This encourages others to think, “well, they were asking for it. As long as I don’t do what they did, I should be OK.” If they went after a bigger name or a site with deeper pockets, they create a sympathetic martyr and find themselves in court defending the indefensible. The one thing the people in charge have, or at least they think they have, is moral authority. Stormer and Stormfront are safe chickens to kill.

There is a corollary, of sorts, to that Chinese idiom. If they set out to scare the monkey, they better scare the monkey. Otherwise, they risk pissing off the monkey and the rest of the monkeys. That’s the delicate balance authorities must strike in times of crisis. There is a risk of squandering their moral authority and legitimacy. Make an example of the wrong guy and they risk a rebellion. It’s not always easy to know, as the reason a crisis exists is the rulers have lost touch with those over whom they are rule.

After the election, I made the point that Trump was a warning shot to the ruling class. They had to reform and Trump was that opening for them. If not, the next guy was not going to be as easy to deal with as Trump. That’s the lesson of history. The people challenging the old order start out hoping to work with the old order. They become radicalized or replaced by radical elements, only when the old order refuses to cooperate. The whole point of popular government is to accommodate this reality about human society.

The people who rule over us are sending a message of their own and have decided to make a few examples, to kill some chickens. The question they don’t know, what no one knows, is if it will scare the monkeys. The evidence so far is that all the ruling class has done so far is piss away their moral authority. “Attacking Nazis” rings hollow when you’re simultaneously trying to erase the Founding Fathers from the public square. It just makes the “Nazis” a useful tool for those wishing to gain the moral high ground defending speech.

For now, we just have a few dead chickens and a troop of increasing angry monkeys.

Ann Barnhardt got the axe yesterday. Fortunately, Ann was ready for it and she’s back on line with a new host. In other news, nobody I know has heard anything about the vanishing websites. Guess it wasn’t on the other news.

What happened to her is a beef with her hosting company. The Stormer and Stormfront are getting zapped by government agents. That’s what a domain registrar is, a government agent. They pay a fee be a registrar and then charge citizens a fee for registering their domain name.

It’s shitty when a hosting company screws with you, but there are millions of hosting companies. There’s only one government.

Appoint Sheriff Joe as the Head of the FBI.
That would really fuck with the deep states minds.
Things would get exponentially more complicated. Then they would have to assassinate two of the most powerful and popular men in government.

Arpaio knows who the bad guys are and who their connections are in our government. It looks like a domino effect strategy is in place for the takedown. The momentum will be that of an avalanche, no matter who lives or dies.

Didn’t Ginsburg say she would move to Canada if Trump was elected? Doesn’t that statement imply that everything she does is political, and that every Supreme Court opinion she writes is blatantly politcal, and not based on Constitutional law? If Trump is known to be in favor of any particular outcome in any Supreme Court case, and she writes an opinion against it, doesn’t that raise the question of whether she’s doing so because of political beliefs and anti-Trump sentiment, rather than a dispassionate reading of Constitutional law? She should be DIS-BARRED for even introducing the chance that she may… Read more »

I believe she said she would move to New Zealand (how relieved they must be she’s still here). She and Justice “white men are second-class citizens, and I hate them all” Sotomayor have no business on the bench.

Ginsburg Backs Out On Promise To Move To New Zealand If Trump Wins: “Our Country Needs Smart, Brave People Like Me” Why not Mexico or Canada? New Zealand is around 75 percent white, the rest of the population Maori and Asian, no blacks. It looks like she might be a racist.

DS has apparently tried registrars in Russia (.ru), China (.wang), the Netherlands, and landed one in the US that lauded free speech (.lol). I guess they were up for 2 days before the registrar was pressured to drop them. After searching, they got another last week, down after about 7 hours (punishedstormer.com). I’m not affiliated with DS or any group, but I do check out what’s popping, and it’s looking like it’s not .gov doing this directly. It appears it’s the groups that have been getting all the laundered NGO money for decades, doing the squeeze tactic of pressure from… Read more »

Yeah, and you really, REALLY, better kill the fucking chicken. If the chicken is seen strutting around the barnyard shortly after you claim to have killed it, not only have you failed to scare the monkey, now you look like a chicken fucker.

Young men have already experienced having everything blamed on them by the feminists. The same tactic is being used by the left now against the right: you’re all (rapists) Nazis, you don’t get to speak in your own defense because you’re a (rapist) Nazi, you’ve made us all victims of (misogyny) racism, anything we do to fight (patriarchy) fascism is good and just.

Except by now you men are immune to it or are owning it. And that scares the left shitless.

Very nicely composed and yet nonsensical. It’s an attempt to pitch Trump as the underdog or the quintessential David with the “Establishment” as Goliath. All very well if you include within the “Establishment” such things as civility, empathy, intellectual curiosity, compassion, and any willingness to compromise among legitimate policy interests. It is somewhat axiomatic that the two party system has severe limitations which seem to include suppression of third parties and the careful grooming of front runners. However, the attempt to conflate the two primary parties based on superficial similarities does a disservice to all the leaders and members who… Read more »

It looks like The Z-Man has made the big leagues. Paul Ryan’s press office is sending out flunkies to spam his comment section with Establishment talking points. Let me guess. Talk like this is “not who we are”.

“All very well if you include within the “Establishment” such things as civility, empathy, intellectual curiosity, compassion, and any willingness to compromise among legitimate policy interests.”

If anyone had any residual doubts as to the blindness, narcissism and moral grandstanding of the ruling class, here it is in all its fustian. But better still is that all this self-love comes with its unstated, but vigorously implied corollary: the loathing of you and everything you stand for.

We came quite close to a shooting war in the 90’s but more level heads prevailed and things calmed down.

I’m not sure there are as many level heads out there and unlike in the 1990’s there are a lot of people who want to take heads instead.

Throw in a change of mindset, for example no one on the right in 1992 would be praising Pinochet or chanting “You can’t run, you can’t hide, you get helicopter ride” at a protests and you are asking for something that future generations will remember as very very ugly indeed

I imagine the reference to Pinochet upthread was hyperbole. I hope level heads prevail, because violence from the Right would not only be very very ugly, it would be crushed instantly — and it would be ultimately counterproductive. You know, there’s a lot of room between coming to believe that the powers that be, including the uniparty, do not have our interests at heart and resorting to violence. It’s very important to make use of that room. The Left began its long march through the institutions a century ago. It worked for them, and the elites discovered that they could… Read more »

It depends on how many. Insurgencies are notoriously difficult to put down without ruining the entire country My estimate is if 10% of White people alone wanted to rebel , that’s part of the Right the US would fall into 4GW style civil war and the USG would have a massive probably unwinnable fight on its hands Right now the numbers aren’t there and even people like me who want serious change are not OK with that kind of thing but in the future? Happily we have Trump for a while which gives us a chance a reset and time… Read more »

The only thing holding the West together right now is the belief on the right that things could be worse. Every time the left ‘kill a chicken’, more on the right decide that Mad Max would be better. Once that reaches a critical mass, it’s over. You don’t need 10% of people to rebel. If 10% of the right simply said ‘screw this’ and stopped going to work, the economy would implode. Left-wing cities would be burning within a fortnight. There wouldn’t be an SJW left after a month, because they’d either have been eaten or discovered that there is… Read more »

The stuff with Randy Weaver than the retaliation by McVeigh caused militia activity to go on high alert as did the incident in Waco It may be apocryphal but the FBI met with some local militia leaders after Waco and asked them if they’d join in an action in another state. The leaders replayed “Not really there are plenty of you federal bastards around here.” My guess is the numbers were not there and the anger level was lower than it is now, People figured while the Feds were out of control it was still America I’m told there were… Read more »

I was paying careful attention during all of that as well. Now is different. After 24 years of Clinton, Bush and Obama anyone my age is either emotionally spent or has flipped over into a hardened and slightly impatient resolve and doesn’t normally show much outward anger anymore. We’re still here, though, and we’re still pissed off. The federal response to Bundy was also very intriguing for me. Federal guns on the ground display a history of not understanding restraint, so the restraint that was practiced there by them came from outside. Had Larry Potts been in in charge (Hi!… Read more »

The 1%-ers are looking forward to a future of robots and AI, where they no longer need the proles. The more they can convince us to kill each other, the less Terminators they’ll need to mop up the survivors.

Am I the only one who never really saw the point of that well known Chinese proverb_? I mean, the monkeys know that the farmer can’t actually get to them, right_? No blow-guns in China and the proverb was created well before accurate small bore firearms existed. That’s why they’re up in the trees, watching and not hiding out. Amiright_? So why would the monkeys be impressed_? I mean if they’re smart enough to get it that the demonstration was for them and not just about getting dinner ready, then they’re smart enough to get it that they have little… Read more »

The monkeys can be as pissed as they like. It changes nothing, and our enemies know it. There’s a story on Instapundit about a kindergartner in an elite (!) California charter school being disciplined for not addressing a trannie classmate as their chosen sex. Think about the multiple layers of mutually reinforcing madness that requires, and the utter Good German gutlessness of the (non-child-abusing) parents, the faculty, and the entire school district. In a similar idiom, California state Senator Kevin DeLeon has publicly denounced Trump’s anti-illegal-immigration efforts, since half his family is here illegally and of *course* they use forged… Read more »

The ruling class isn’t scaring people with it’s gang of anti-fa goons and rampaging college students tearing down statutes. It’s pissing white people off and making the authorities look like cowards by refusing to do anything. Short term the thugs are going to keep on winning as they have the establishment including law enforcement on their side in a vast majority of cases. This is also destroying their credibility with whites at a alarming rate. Already, one Catholic school in CA has been forced to remove it’s statue of Christ and the Virgin Mary because Muslims complained. I expect to… Read more »

If a war does start in America, most of the military will be on the side of the right. Most of the cops will run and hide as soon as they face a significant threat, like they did in the LA riots. That only leaves the black-masked thugs. Meanwhile, the economy will collapse, and cities will become death-traps of starvation, disease and ethnic violence. This isn’t the 1800s: you can’t operate a just-in-time economy in the middle of a war. So a civil war in modern-day America will kill at least a hundred million people. Which is why no sane… Read more »

Hence the Government Party freak out over Trump’s pardon of Sherriff Joe Arpaio. That was a textbook example of killing the chicken…the Obama-ites had been trying to take out Arpaio for YEARS. They wanted to get rid of him as a message to anybody else thinking about defying the Govt Party.

It’s telling, while also being unsurprising, that both Paul Ryan and John McCain have criticized the pardon.

It’s also a sign of things to come with Flynn and Manafort and that fraudulent Mueller investigation. That Arpaio pardon is a message on multiple levels.

Clarity matters. Now, even the most disinterested citizen is likely to be aware that government is proactively lawless and therefore cannot be trusted to either protect the nation or secure our liberty. This loss of faith is non trivial and has the dual effect of undermining the public support system for government legitimacy while growing a quiet and covert dissidence. They seem to think that worst thing that can happen is that voters will be turned off and become apathetic.

“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.” (The Declaration of Independence) When the Founders spoke… Read more »

How long until it dawns on them that simply killing monkeys would be more efficient? Legitimacy be damned, it’s all gone anyway, might as well use power and roll out our guillotine before the dirt people bring theirs. It’s amazing this feeling that the entire mass of public opinion is on a knifes edge. If we personify this current climate as a kind of tyrannical king, a challenger has been quietly winning converts and building a power base in the shadows. No public defectors first but when they come they will come fast, the king will look around as his… Read more »

I am hoping the American public sees what is going on, sees that their Constitutional rights are under threat by the totalitarian left, and that the left is trying to obliterate their heritage and history.

Lets all stop beating around the bush here and openly comment we are sick and fucking tired of this crap.
That this is our fucking country. Our culture.
And if they don’t back off there will be a revolution that eclipses all revolutions in history.

Because that is exactly no bones about it how I think.
What say all you?

Let’s pretend for a moment that you are not a leftist provocateur. This is a fair assumption given what you wrote later and some tell tales of crudity such as your irregular use of an apostrophe to form plurals and inconsistent omisson of apostrophes when one is required. There will be no good revolution during the foreseeable future. Leading revolutionaries such as the Z monkey and Rush Blowhard’s fans insist by their own example that we should describe our worst enemies, communist internationalists, as “liberals”. These revolutionaries ought to know better, for it was the mendacious totalitarians who cloaked their… Read more »

There’s another factor which underlies, ultimately where all this is going on here. That guns. There’s only two kinds of authority here for the mandarins. The consent that is given to them by the governed. And the power implicit, ultimately through the barrel of their guns they use to ultimately back up that assumed authority. The monkeys, they really hold the only moral authority. Monkey consent & withdrawal of monkey consent. That is the so called contract in a Constitutional Republic. The monkeys can defy and withdraw consent any time they choose. So the idea is to create a plurality… Read more »

How can the 2nd am. be “the crux of the formation of this Republic” if the authority and consent of the governed comprise the lawful foundations of the republic? You have confused the foundations with a means to deter overbearing rulers. You have also misunderstood the 2nd am. which has little to say about keeping a pile of guns in your basement but something very interesting to say about a well regulated militia under the control of the tyrants whom you would resist with “Arms” hoarded on the pretext of the 2nd am. Every literate person who can think can… Read more »

In the same breath; scream about fascists, and then demand the monuments to Jefferson, Washington and Lincoln be torn down.
The ‘Founding Fathers’ were fascists? Over a hundred and fifty years before Hitler or Mussolini?

[…] There’s another expression that is useful now. It is an old Chinese idiom. “Kill the chicken to scare the monkey”, which refers to making an example out of someone in order to threaten others. This was a popular aphorism during the Cultural Revolution where Chinese officials would routinely make an example of a deviationist to remind anyone else with heretical ideas that there are consequences to challenging authority. The college professor paraded around school and forced to confess to made up crimes let the other professors know who was really in charge of the school. […]